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28/06/2021 1:34 pm
Summary: Completed your engineering? Going to work for an MNC? Read the article to know about the common corporate culture for making the right career choice.
Introduction
“Do this after you begin earning on your own.”
“Buy that after you get a job.”
Listening to such remarks throughout their graduation, the young minds are filled with this passionate anticipation. No wonder, by the time they reach the last year of college, students get eager to bag their first job.
In the spirit of achieving financial independence, most of the engineers often neglect their career plans and goals. Just to remove the tag of “unemployed” any job seems good enough to them.
Mass recruiting companies jump in to make the most of this situation.With fairly easy interview processes during campus selections and a decent starting package, they manage to lure almost all college students.
But how to recognize mass recruiting companies?
One must have come across such updates like- “The college where his friend studies had invited this company that hired hundred people.” Or a news headline quoting- “XYZ company is planning to recruit a thousand engineers in the next quarter.”
This form of hiring is known as mass hiring. The companies involved in this practice are known as mass recruiting companies.
These huge numbers spark a hope of a good career start amongst the young engineers. But do they really live up to the expectations of fresh graduates?
To understand better, read these five lesser known facts about mass recruiting companies before accepting any job offer from them:
1. Irrelevant technology trainings
As per the tradition, companies usually offer training to their newly joined employees. The training duration typically extends to a few weeks.
During this phase, freshers mostly receive training on most basic and outdated technology. For example- mainframe. What is more disheartening is that people rarely get projects for the technology on which they were trained.
Thus, the investment of the precious efforts by the enthusiastic trainees in those few weeks mostly leads to nothing.
2. Extended periods of wait without project
Clients search for employees with great work experience for their projects. In line with this logic, freshers become the last choice for the clients. And thus begins the awful duration of wait.
In some cases, people have waited for a good whole year to get their first project.
3. Non-coding, dead-end projects
Young engineers usually equate working in MNC’s to coding.
However the truth is entirely different in the case of mass recruiting companies.
For their first project, average freshers are usually given a role that requires no coding.
For the folks who like coding, this tradition comes like a nightmare. While for those, who are not into coding, this fact comes as a big relief. However, for both the groups the consequence remains the same–“No meaningful experience is gained from these projects.”
Adding to the woes, it is painfully tough for freshers to get released from these nonsensical projects.
4. Job insecurity
Suppose the young engineer got successful in getting release from the dead end project. Now, what should they do?
Will they get a new project? They will.
But will it be on the platform for which they want to work? Probably not.
Remember clients want to work with experienced employees?
So should they resign? Well, they probably should.
But which organization is going to hire them without any practical knowledge?
Besides, cracking interviews for the second job is not as smooth a process as was for the first one.
Thus the helpless fresher continues to suffer in the sick, vicious cycle of the MNC.
5. More employees=more projects
Mass recruiting companies surely struggle to map the talent of its existing employees to meaningful projects.
Then why do they keep recruiting new people in batches? This is because the more people the company will show, the more projects they will get. All of these projects are good for their business. But for the innocent freshers, these projects are certainly not in the best interests of their career.
Final words
A fairly good salary combined with not-so-hard to crack recruiting processes appeals to a lot of young engineers. Hence carrying the vision of a promising future, they start their career with mass hiring companies.
But once they become a part of these organizations, an altogether different picture comes to the light. With little scope of working on meaningful platforms, young engineers are mostly lost in a career maze. And when they try to look for a solution, they find themselves back to square one.Thus the saying, “All that glitters is not gold” holds true for mass hiring.
One of the chief reasons for this sad situation youngsters face is that the young population is unsure of their life goals. They see money as the only motivating factor.
Such a mindset results from the folks not believing in their skills and interests. Hence, it is only wise to work on the root of this interconnected issue – a doubtful attitude.
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Written by: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisha-ahmad-70b71a1aa /” target=”true”>Alisha Ahmad, Digital Writopreneur and Content Writer
Edited by: Rajinder Soni, Coach and CEO of Digital Writopreneurs Hub
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Summary:
“Engineers are the people who discover the world by their pen and brain”, however in India they are at risk of becoming unemployed and staying jobless. Why is it like that? We will try to know the 7 problems and come up with a solution for them.
Introduction:
To run a country we need leaders, to keep a country healthy we need doctors, but to build a country we need engineers. But, in India, a person with such an important qualification is facing problems right from the first day of his college until he gets a job due to 7 major issues that are listed below:
- Lack of Skill and Practical Knowledge
More than half of the engineering graduates are not considered for jobs by companies due to lack of communication skills and practical knowledge. The most burning question is that “when the corporate world requires skillful engineers then why are colleges giving more priority to theory than practical?” According to a survey conducted by AISHE in the year 2020, almost 80% of Indian engineers remained unemployed due to lack of required skills.
- Outdated and Improper Syllabus
The main reason why engineers do not get jobs is because they are taught by teachers who impart improper and outdated syllabus. It takes 4 years to complete graduation in engineering and out of these 4 years the first-year syllabus has most of the subjects. This won’t help them in improving skills due to lack of any practical implementation of what has been taught in the class. This turns them merely into robots who write assignments, prepare journals and have no time to innovate practical strategies.
Also, there should be regular amendments in the syllabus and education system in synchronization with the technological development in the engineering field.
- Faulty Education System
Age-old semester systems and the long process of continuous evaluation through assignments and unit tests are boring. This is the reason why many students show lack of interest in learning. The current education system is making the students work for good grades. Lack of practical implementation of concepts results in students getting half knowledge which becomes hazardous for their career.
- Poor Licensing Laws for Engineering Institutes in India
Recently, we have seen a major increase in mushrooming of many so-called engineering colleges and institutions. This has happened because the government does not have stringent laws and regulations while granting permissions to barely-trained organizations that are setting up engineering institutions in India.
According to research conduction in assessment year 2008–2009, there were 753,910 engineering colleges in India but in the year 2009–2010, there were 1093,380 institutions that have emerged.
The above table has been taken from (Youth Ki Awaaz)
This sudden increase in the number of colleges in India has decreased the value of engineering and engineers in India.
- Lack of Innovation and Research
Why do we lack innovation in India? The reason is that we do not allow students to ask questions. We just want them to go through the repeated syllabus every year. As compared to India, United States of America has produced hundreds of Noble Prize winners. India was not able to produce at least one noble prize winner post independence. The best solution to this problem is that students should be allowed to think, explore, make mistakes and learn. This helps them improve their skills and build a personal portfolio.
- Lack of Essential Soft Skills
Most of the skilled and talented engineers in India do not have jobs. The reason is that they have never undergone soft skills training. This inability to convey a clear message to the interviewers is the most important reason for failure during interviews.
Engineering institutes must take steps to ensure that the candidates develop soft skills that can help them during client-handling and team communication events.
- Lack of Quality Teachers
Most people join the teaching profession to earn money and not train and give birth to future leaders. It depends on the teacher whether to make the students career or completely erase it. Students trust their teachers and it is the responsibility of the teacher to show them a clear path. Teachers should teach students to fail and attempt again. This increases the work load of the teacher but this is a turning point for students.
Why teachers put more emphasis on earning rather than training? The reason is that they are not clear on their mission. A missionary teacher will always take his students through a lot of pain and show them their mistakes. Whereas a teacher whose purpose is to just work for fees will only provide theoretical training.
Conclusion:
What is the solution to all these problems faced by engineers? The first solution is that the students should be allowed to work on their skills and not follow age-old education system. Every individual is different so why a boring curriculum is provided to impart education. 2021 is the time to ignite a revolution and give birth to student-centered education instead of syllabus-centered theoretical lectures. This will help the students to adapt the ability of inquisitiveness and hunger of learning, therefore, producing skillful candidates in every field.
The second solution is that skills and knowledge should be given more weightage as compared to degrees and certificates.
If you have completed reading this article and you have found this to be an eye opener, then please share it and create awareness among aspiring engineers, their parents and of course teachers.
Written by: D. Vamsidhar, Content Writer and Digital Writopreneur
Edited by: Rajinder Soni, Writer’s Coach and CEO, Digital Writopreneurs Hub and Academy, New Delhi
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